Muhammad Jamal Amin

Muhammad Jamal Amin (1989-) was an American member of the Islamic State jihadist group.

Biography
Muhammad Jamal Amin was born in 1989 in Virginia, United States to a Muslim family (his father was from Palestine and his mother was from Mosul, Iraq) and he later went on to join the Islamic State terrorist group during the Iraqi Civil War. Amin joined the group in late 2015, and on 14 March 2016 he decided to desert the group after only a few months of fighting in the group, turning himself in to Peshmerga fighters near Sinjar while attempting to flee to Turkey. He was identified as an American by his Virginia driver's license, and he was taken into custody.